... The vast emission nebula N44 in our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud has a large, 250 light-year hole and astronomers are trying to figure out why. ... Sometimes the unknown is beautiful. ... Cosmic Tornado HH 49 50 . ... Venus Just After Sunset . ... South of the large star-forming region known as the Orion Nebula, lies bright blue reflection nebula NGC 1999. ... If you can find Saturn in tonight's sky, then you can also find M44, popularly known as the Beehive star cluster. ...

... 2009 May 7 . A Halo for NGC 6164 . ... Explanation: Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. ... Also like many planetary nebulae, NGC 6164 has been found to have an extensive, faint halo , revealed in this deep telescopic image of the region. ... The gorgeous skyscape is a composite of narrow-band image data highlighting the glowing gas, and broad-band data of the surrounding starfield. ... About APOD | ...

... J. Brand, M. Felli, R. Cesaroni, C. Codella, G. Comoretto, S. Di Franco, F. Massi, L. Moscadelli, R. Nesti, L. Olmi, F. Palagi, F. Palla, D. Panella, R. Valdettaro . 2007, IAU Symposium 242, p. 223 . ... 2007, ApJ, in press . ... Murphy, G. C., Lery, T., O'Sullivan, S., Spicer, D., Bacciotti, F., Rosen, A. 2007, A , in press . ... Rubini, F., Lorusso, S., Del Zanna, L., Bacciotti, F. 2007, A , in press . ... Coffey, D., Bacciotti, F., Ray, T.P., Eisloeffel, J., Woitas, J. 2007, ApJ, in press . ...

Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries . Two different types of stellar BH formation exist: (1) direct core collapse   of a massive star and (2) AIC of a NS. A BH of the first type presumably will have a mass comparable to that of the collapsing star and can be born both from a single star and in a binary system. ... Next: Binary Radiopulsars with Black Up: Black Holes in Binaries Previous: Black Holes in Binaries Mike E. Prokhorov . ...

... This paper describes the main algorithms used by the Einstein Level One processing to create the exposure masks and the background maps for Einstein IPC images, and how these algorithms were recreated in the IRAF environment. Our goal was to recreate the algorithms used by the Level One Processing to create exposure masks and background maps for Einstein Image Proportional Counter (IPC) data (cf. sections 2.5 and 2.7 of Harnden et al. ...

... Stars are born in big clouds of gas and dust in the Universe. ... This amazing new picture shows a small part of a cloud in our own galaxy (called the Milky Way) in which stars are being formed. In the picture you can see bright arc shapes in the cloud, but what created them is a mystery. ... When all of their fuel is gone, these massive stars explode in what is called a supernova explosion the biggest firework display in the Universe! ...

... Scientists of Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) have created an unique mobile platform for the production of training and gaming simulators. ... Such mobile platforms also known as the Stewart platforms became widespread in the world primarily as simulators for training of highly-qualified military pilots and drivers. ... For example, the Rocket and Space Centre Progress is going to test level sensors for residual fuel in the fuel tanks of the rocket carrier on this mobile platform. ...

... Table files like the ones created in the section on imcnts can be displayed, printed and manipulated using the tasks contained in the stsdas.ttools package. ... sp> tables # Load the relevant package ta> tprint rp90_cnt prpar=yes # .tab extension assumed # the hidden parameter prpar is set to display the header # as well as the data ta> tprint rp90_cnt # Displays only the data info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prdata- prpar+ # Displays only the header info ta> tprint rp90_cnt prparam=yes | ...

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... Crescent Nebula . ... Above the Crescent are the Lynd's Bright Nebulae LBN 215, to the right is the filamentary LBN 208 and below is LBN 193. Hubble Palette, 5 nm Narrowband filters, S-II (Red Channel): H-alpha (Green Channel): O-III (Blue Channel) - 30: 55: 40 minutes, 5 minute subframe, binned 1x1, Total= 125 minutes, Takahashi Epsilon-180, SBIG STL-6303E CCD camera, ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 13 August 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

The above process keeps the # of protons and the # of neutrons in the early Universe constant. This is extremely important and will result in a testable prediction later. Remember, a free neutron (one that is not bound in an atomic nucleus) will decay into a proton + electron (+ anti-neutrino) in about 900 seconds. ... During this epoch, the proton-to-neutron ratio is 1.0 . ... The Universe consists of protons, neutrons and electrons plus a photon background and a neutrino background. ...

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Next] [WFPC2 ISR Index] . ... The characteristics of charge transfer traps in the WFPC2 are examined and the effect they may have on observations are discussed. The dark tail created just above the location of the trap, as well as any bright tail created in the column above the trap when a bright source is clocked out during the readout, can be modeled as simple exponential decays. ... A portion of a WF2 image (before cosmic ray removal) showing the location of five of the seven traps on WF2. ...

... Carefully measure the diameter of the craters formed by the impact without disturbing the sand. ... Crater diameter increases with increasing mass. ... Without disturbing the sand, carefully measure the crater diameter. ... Did you measure any difference in the diameters of the craters? Yes, as velocity increases, so does crater diameter. ... Impact cratering. ... Impact craters can be demonstrated with younger or less advanced students using mud instead of sand and ball bearings. ...

... Our Galaxy . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... NGC 2841: a spiral galaxy some 46 million light years away. ... It is especially hard to explain this process of star birth in some spiral galaxies. ... Targets include both star clusters and galaxies, and star formation rates seen range from the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy) which is creating about ten new stars in its core alone every year to the much less fecund star producer NGC 2841. ... Tweets that mention Baby stars of NGC 2841 | ...

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... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... Astronomers create movie of M87's jet . The movie, created from more than 13 years of Hubble observations, promises to give scientists a better understanding of how black holes shape galaxy evolution. ... Astronomers have assembled, from more than 13 years of observations from NASA s Hubble Space Telescope, a series of time-lapse movies showing a jet of superheated gas 5,000 light-years long as it is ejected from a supermassive black hole. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

Laboratory of Stellar Physics . ... A study of close binaries with black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. ... A study of SS433 - the massive close binary with a black hole in the regime of supercritical accretion . ... A search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH). The black holes which are not supermassive black holes observed in quasars, and which were formed not in massive stars. ... A search for new magnetic stars, new CP stars, measurements of magnetic fields in stars . ...